From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 1: 1:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3C037B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5E343E3B for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (126fd8337a078f972c758ce528207b29@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g93822ho075094; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g93821Qx075093; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:02:01 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Benjamin Polidore Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 Message-ID: <20021003080201.GN45363@vectors.cx> References: <004901c26aa2$6097ea10$42f5d782@corp.thebiz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004901c26aa2$6097ea10$42f5d782@corp.thebiz.net> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG patience ::) the RE team has chosen to release 4.7 after the original date in exchange for greater confidence in the stability of the release. there will likely be another release candidate before 4.7 is official. i imagine it would simplify things to provide at least some sort of recognition on the webpage that 4.7 is indeed delayed. while a target date easily may not be feasible, a notice of acknowledgement of the delay and a note keeping users abreast of what is involved in the delay and what is currently being tested would be a welcome addition. for any RE or www team members who are reading this, i'd be happy to provide maintainance for such information. -Adam >> (10.02.2002 @ 2301 PST): Benjamin Polidore said, in 0.4K: << > The release engineering web page says that 4.7 came out 10/1, but the > main web page still says that the current release is 4.6.2 and it > doesn't appear that RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE exists on cvsup.freebsd.org. > > What's the deal? > > -Ben Polidore > polidore@devnull.us > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "4.7" from Benjamin Polidore << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message